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Strawberry Fritters

Strawberry Fritters are bread slices filled with crushed strawberries, dipped in a thin batter, and cooked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Strawberry Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl, then mix in the almond cream and salt.

  2. Add flour gradually until a thin batter is achieved.

Assemble and cook

  1. Crush the strawberries, sweeten to taste, and spread between the slices of bread.

  2. Press the bread slices together firmly and cut into desired shapes.

  3. Dip the bread in the batter and cook on a soapstone under a cover until golden brown.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set and brown as it cooks.
Almond cream
Adds richness and body to the batter.
Flour
Thickens the batter so it coats the bread.
Strawberries
Provide fruit flavor and moisture to the filling.
Bread
Forms the base that soaks up the batter and holds the filling.

The step that matters

Dip the bread in the batter and cook on a soapstone under a cover until golden brown.. Cooking covered traps steam so the inside heats through, while the batter's sugars and proteins brown only at the surface; too little heat or too long a cook can leave the filling cold or the crust burnt.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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